British Frigate HMS Juno (1780) Ships Biography

[Cpt Kangaroo]

HMS Juno (1780)

Great Britain
Class: Amazon - Fifth Rate
(Amazon Class Frigates URL)
http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthre...igates-of-1773
Armament: 32 guns (24x12pdr, 4x6pdr, 4x18pdr Carronades)
Compliment: 220
Launched: 14 December 1780
Length: 126ft 6.5 (38.6m) in overall, 104ft 7.5 (31.9m) in keel
Weight or Tonnage: 689 bm
Draft: 8 ft (2.4384 m)

Notable Captains:
James Montagu September 1780 – March 1785
Samuel Hood May 1790 - October 1795
Lord Amelius Beauclerk October 1795 - January 1796
George Dundas August 1798 - 1802
Isaac Manley 1802 – 1802
Henry Richardson April 1803 - February 1807
Charles Schomberg February 1807 - July 1807
Granville Proby July 1807

Theatres of War:
American War of Independence:
- 1780, British waters and the Atlantic.
- February 10, 1781 captured the American privateer Revanche (or Revenge) off Beachy Head.
(Sloop Zebra in support)
- Early 1782, joined Richard Bickerton's squadron operating in the East Indies.
- June 20 1783, Battle of Cuddalore
- March 1785, Returned to Britain to be paid off.

Placed in ordinary: 1785 – 1790

French Revolutionary Wars:
- mid-1790 stationed in Jamaica
- September 1791 returned to Britain and paid off
- January 1793 recommissioned
- February 17 1793 captured the privateer Entreprenant.
- March 2 1793 captured the Palme
- April 1 1793 captured the Laborieux (together with HMS Aimable)
- May 1793 transferred to the Mediterranean
- January 11 1794 Hood sailed into the enemy held port of Toulon in error, escaped.
- February 7 1794 attack on a tower at Mortella Point, Corsica (Supporting HMS Fortitude 74)
- October 1795 returned to Britain with a convoy.
- January 1796 paid off

August 1798 re commissioned

- August 1799 operated with a British squadron in the Helder
- August 11 – 13 , 1799 Cutting out raid at Schiermonnikoog, capturing Crash, a Dutch schooner Vengeance, the Vier Vendou, the Jonge Gessina and 4 schuyts or galiots,

Early 1800 sailed for Jamaica:
- October 1 1800 capture of the Aquila (HMS Melampus, and HMS Retribution were in company)

Napoleonic Wars:
- September 8,1803 captured the 4-gun privateer Quatre Fils
- 1805 arrived at Gibraltar to harass coastal shipping
- 1806 active in the Bay of Naples, supporting Sidney Smith's operations

FATE:
- 1807 Returned to Britain, placed in ordinary at Woolwich after her arrival.
- July 1811, was broken up there in July 1811